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free to say, a dinner was to me a more interesting object than a glacier.
Therefore, while H. and W. went to the latter, I turned off to the inn, amid their cries and reproaches.
Here, then, I am, writing these notes in the salle ma ranger of the inn, where other voyagers are eating and drinking, and there is H. feeding on the green moonshine of an emerald ice cave.
One would almost think her incapable of fatigue.
How she skips up and down high places and steep places, to the manifest perplexity of the honest guide Kienholz, pere, who tries to take care of her, but does not exactly know how!
She gets on a pyramid of debris, which the edge of the glacier is plowing and grinding up, sits down, and falls-not asleep exactly, but into a trance.
W. and I are ready to go on: we shout; our voice is lost in the roar of the torrent.
We send the guide.
He goes down, and stands doubtfully.
He does not know exactly what to do. She hears him, and starts to her feet, pointing with one hand to yonder peak, and with the other to that knife-like edge that seems cleaving heaven with its keen and glistening cimeter of snow, reminding one of Isaiah's sublime imagery, “ For my sword is bathed in heaven.”
She points at the grizzly rocks, with their jags and spear-points.
Evidently she is beside herself, and thinks she can remember the names of those monsters, born of earthquake and storm, which cannot be named nor known but by sight, and then are known at once perfectly and forever.
After traveling through Germany, Belgium, and Holland, the party returned to Paris toward the end of August, from which place Mrs. Stowe writes :--
